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Steve S. Saroff is a short-story writer, novelist, and founder of several successful companies. His recent stories have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Jewish Fiction Journal, Examined Life(University of Iowa), BULL, and elsewhere. In a different era, his stories paid his rent; they appeared in Redbook and other national magazines read by millions. He is the author of the novel Paper Targets, which spent several months in Amazon’s Top 50 in literary fiction after its publication. As Submittable’s first angel investor and a mentor to its founder, he helped launch the company.

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Steve S. Saroff Thank you Tammie for the kind words. I'm currently working on new book, which I hope to get published soon. This one will also be set in Western Monta…moreThank you Tammie for the kind words. I'm currently working on new book, which I hope to get published soon. This one will also be set in Western Montana. Also, my other published book, "The Long Line of Elk," has the origin story of the main character in Paper Targets. Again, thank you. - steve(less)
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Interview on The Story Blender Podcast

In September I received a message through Instagram that I almost deleted. It read like an impersonation, where someone pretends to be a famous person and, through compliments and name-dropping, tries to lure you into a scam. This was the message I almost ignored: “I read Paper Targets and was blown away. Great writing. I would love you as a guest on my podcast, The Story Blender. Past guests incl Read more of this blog post »
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This is a wonderful book, relevant, and also full of personal experience and well-written. The author, early on in his career, wanted to be a hermit, and he shows why. Absolutely readable. Absolutely fascinating. Absolutely great.
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“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
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“Clean clothes. Gentle talk. Someone to wake up with. Maybe relationships would work if they were based on present-tense actions that never looked for a future beyond the next day.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“My sadness, and especially my joy, one moment was solid, but then the next it was empty space.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

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“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I find her most in solitary places: along the Blackfoot river in Autumn, a place she never saw, where red river rocks sparkle in the low water and dark trout pretend to be shadows.”
― Steve S. Saroff, The Long Line of Elk

“Out this small window there is a halo of light, the Glory rainbow that scientists tell us is caused by ice crystals, but which my heart tells me is her bright memory.”
― Steve S. Saroff, The Long Line of Elk

“Clean clothes. Gentle talk. Someone to wake up with. Maybe relationships would work if they were based on present-tense actions that never looked for a future beyond the next day.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“My sadness, and especially my joy, one moment was solid, but then the next it was empty space.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

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Carl Paper Targets Art Can Be Murder by Steve S. Saroff Such great reviews! Congratulations!!!


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Carl Steve, I am pleased to see how many people are enjoying Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder


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